Dutch Grand Prix

Max Verstappen clinched a hard-fought home victory against Mercedes after strategy chaos in the Dutch Grand Prix, as a furious Lewis Hamilton dropped from ...

As the race progressed, it looked like Verstappen would have to overtake both Hamilton and Russell on a tight circuit. But, soon after, Russell demanded soft tyres too and his team listened, now putting him third and leaving Hamilton a sitting duck on his eight-lap-old medium tyres. You can either pit Lewis, lose track position against Verstappen, and leave George out - screwed. Hamilton, having calmed down slightly, praised the mechanics and the team's result, with Mercedes now appearing Red Bull's main challengers. "First of all, Lewis is ahead. "That was the biggest **** up," said Hamilton on team radio.

Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen made quick work of a safety car restart to win the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday in front of 100000 adoring fans ...

"The gap is now really big," Leclerc said. Thousands of fans cycled to the track. Hamilton misjudged his restart and Verstappen overtook him straight away to bring a huge roar from the crowd. "From there onwards we had really good balance in the car again." The team result wasn't quite what we hoped for but we can take a lot of confidence moving forward," Russell said. Verstappen and others changed tires. "I just lost it for a second. Leclerc started from second ahead of Carlos Sainz Jr. "It's down to the team, of course, but that's also how Lewis won the championships. "Even when we win races we want to do better. "This was a very special weekend for me. That orange wave is carrying him to a second straight world title.

Max Verstappen was made to work hard before going on to seal a special second consecutive victory at his home race at this weekend's Dutch Grand Prix.

Hamilton held on for fourth ahead of Sergio Perez, in fifth. Click on the video player above to relive the action from the Dutch Grand Prix, as Verstappen sealed his 10th victory of the season. HIGHLIGHTS: Relive the action from an intense Dutch Grand Prix as Verstappen seals 10th win of the season

After claiming pole position yesterday ahead of championship rival Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen looks to make it four wins in-a-row at home track ...

Lap 30: In response to that Verstappen overtake, Hamilton dives into the pitlane to strap on a set of hard tyres. Lap 3: Yellow flags in sector one and it's Magnussen who loses it mid-corner and hits the barrier with a thump. Sainz in P3 is already 3.8 seconds adrift of the front pair and he himself is coming under heavy pressure from Hamilton behind. For fans in Canada, TSN will carry the English-language telecast of races. Lap 33: Russell is also now into the pits so it's as you were at the top as Verstappen leads from Leclerc. He gets a lovely exit out of the final corner and easily gets past Hamilton heading into corner one. Verstappen pits for a soft set of tyres but both Mercedes cars stay out and now Hamilton leads the race! Leclerc is down to P4 after the stops as Ferrari's misery looks set to continue here in the Netherlands. That stoppage came at the perfect time for Verstappen and Red Bull. That seems a lengthy gap but the time is continuing to fall. Hold on, down the back straight Russell jumps Hamilton and the pair nearly collide. Lap 64: During that restart Sainz also overtook Perez into corner one with a lovely move all the way around the outside.

The Dutchman pushed his way to a 10th victory of the season while the Silver Arrows took a questionable gamble and the Prancing Horse lacked pace.

He said, in part, “I was just on the edge of breaking point with emotions and my apologies to the team because I don’t even remember what I said, I just lost it for a second. So you’re in the pit and there’s no tyre in a normal race. With just seven races to go, Red Bull holds a 135-point lead over Ferrari and the Silver Arrows are just 30 points behind the Prancing Horse. Because I took avoiding action, they give you a penalty – I find this very frustrating and I’m going to speak with the FIA now because I don’t understand it.” The lack of pace, though, is the larger problem to focus on compared to a botched pit stop for Sainz, Binotto said to Sky Sports F1. “We tried to react simply to stay ahead of him which was the best way to keep track position, because we knew Lewis was very fast in the first stint of the race. The Spaniard remained stationary for a lengthy first pit stop after the left rear tire was not prepared in time. A series of cars dove into the pits, looking for any advantage in the final stretch as the safety car neutralized the race. AlphaTauri’s chief engineer of vehicle performance, Claudio Balestri, revealed that the problem was a “car failure” in the team’s post-race release. However, just a few corners later, Tsunoda came to a stop and retired from the race. At first, Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto felt it was “an unlucky situation” for Leclerc, who pitted just before the VSC. The Japanese driver stopped on-track and complained about his tires not fitting correctly, only to be told by AlphaTauri that all was well.

Max Verstappen won the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort on Sunday, his 10th victory of the season for Red Bull.

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Mercedes' George Russell came home to finish in second at the Dutch GP, with Charles Leclerc rounding off the podium for Ferrari in third. A furious Lewis ...

LAP 32/72 - RUSSELL PITS - Russell is in the pits and also will go to the end of the race on a set of hard tyres. LAP 50/72 - Verstappen comes in on Lap 48, and changes to a set of hard tyres. LAP 58/72 - The safety car comes through the pits, and Russell opts to make a last minute call and change onto the soft tyres. LAP 30/72 - HAMILTON PITS - Hamilton opts to come in and fit the harder tyres. He then reports an issue with the rear and pulls over to the side of the track. Hamilton tries to get on the inside of Sainz into Turn 2, and it looks like there is the slightest of contact between the two! Verstappen held on to win the Grand Prix, finishing just over four seconds ahead of Russell, with Leclerc further behind in third. Russell, who was running in P3, also made a last-minute call to change to the same tyre. Red Bull made the gamble and boxed Verstappen for a set of harder tyres under the VSC, which they thought they would finish the race on. This triggered a full safety car, which Verstappen instantly took advantage and came in for a fresh set of softs. After a long stint, Hamilton eventually came in on Lap 30 for a set of harder compound tyres. He also started the Grand Prix on a fresh set of soft tyres.

Lewis Hamilton apologised to his Mercedes team after a radio rant during the Dutch GP, which was won by Max Verstappen.

So it was worth taking the risk." "He had a tyre that was five laps old, the medium, holding position was the right thing to do. "Lewis was ahead, so you always have a little bit longer with the call [for those behind]. We discussed at the moment, are we taking risks for the race win? Yes, we are taking risks. We were quicker than most [teams] at many points.

Max Verstappen won the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort on Sunday, his 10th victory of the season for Red Bull.

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Max Verstappen held onto victory in a captivating 2022 Dutch Grand Prix amid a strong showing from the Mercedes and late Safety Car drama at Zandvoort, ...

Team mate Perez was sent into the pits for hard tyres on Lap 41, emerging P7 and right in front of Alonso, but the Mexican soon found his feet and began to turn up the pace, passing hard-shod Norris on Lap 44. The race resumed on Lap 50, hard-shod Verstappen leading Hamilton by over 12 seconds while Russell was in third, five seconds ahead of hard-tyred Leclerc. Perhaps a Virtual Safety Car would be called – a reprieve for Leclerc and Verstappen in the face of two swift Mercedes. With Mercedes putting on a show of pace on their hard tyres, both closing in on Leclerc, Verstappen was asked for his take on the strategy. Hamilton was then pulled in for a set of hards on Lap 30, releasing Verstappen back into the lead as the Mercedes driver emerged ahead of a now medium-shod Sainz. Verstappen responded to Leclerc’s stop on Lap 19 – losing time as he was stationary for 3.4 seconds – and emerged around four seconds ahead of the Ferrari while Hamilton led Russell. At the start of Lap 36, Hamilton closed in on Perez and the Mexican locked up heavily in defence of P3 into Turn 1. As Russell retook P6 off Norris, the top six was unchanged by Lap 5 – but Hamilton was gaining on Sainz in the chase for P3. Almost miraculously, he continued on in last place and reported that the car was okay – and there was no Safety Car either. Hamilton ended up fourth at the flag as Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez – the former held back by a calamitous Ferrari pit stop earlier on, before a five-second penalty for an unsafe release in a later stop – battled late on for P5. A huge roar, and it was lights out for this 72-lap duel on the dunes. In that restart, Verstappen swept past the Mercedes for the lead, with Russell and Leclerc following suit to pry Hamilton away from the podium.

Toto Wolff says his Mercedes Formula 1 team pushed to take risks with its Dutch Grand Prix strategy in order to fight for victory rather than settle for a ...

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This season had been a trying old slog for Lewis Hamilton at best and his frustration and disappointment at the Sisyphean task of repeatedly wrangling a ...

This was a risk but it proved inspired, the hard tyre was quicker than expected and Hamilton made the most of it. Intending to go long they did so and then switched both Hamilton and Russell to the hard tyre to one-stop and make it to the flag. It was made more so as, until those final moments, Mercedes had played a blinder to put him in real contention against the faster Red Bulls and Ferraris. Over 90 minutes after the finish Hamilton spoke to the media having had time to calm down and regain his equilibrium. This season had been a trying old slog for Lewis Hamilton at best and his frustration and disappointment at the Sisyphean task of repeatedly wrangling a recalcitrant Mercedes has been palpable. What was most noticeable as these tense moments played out and Hamilton saw his chances slipping away was the unusual virulence of his reaction.

Transcript from the post-race interviews and FIA hosted top three press conference after the 2022 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.

You go through all the procedures so it’s nice, of course, to see all the crowd and the craziness and I appreciate it a lot but I think also, as a sportsman, you focus on your job, right? As a racing driver and where we are at the moment as a team, we want to win. MV: Not real weaknesses but we know at some places where we are stronger than others, we know on a high downforce track that it’s a bit of a more difficult situation to get the best out of our package. And then of course, after the race, you take it all in and of course, this was a very special weekend for me, to see, all of these fans come out and support me. But I think I don’t need to tell anyone in the team, the motivation we have, to always try to improve and to win races, even when we win races, we still want to do better. And also, today we will look at a lot of things that we can do better but I think that’s what you always need to have, that kind of approach, always wanting to do more, wanting to do better, because that’s how you stay on top because if you stand still, of course, people at the end will overtake you. And then we went out and we were clearly lacking a little bit of pace on that Hard compared to the Mercedes cars on the Medium. If we continue to qualify P6 and P8 as we have done in the last two race weekends, we’re going to really struggle to win a race. MV: I have to say, when I swapped to the Medium, of course, I was catching them, which is normal because I had a newer tyre, they were still doing good lap times, I have to say. But then, of course, with that late Safety Car, we could switch back to the preferred tyre, the Soft one, and we could get back into lead. MV: Yeah, I mean, before that Safety Car I thought it was OK to the end with the Hard tyres, even though we were a bit slower. I know you take one race at a time and you never give up but what is your feeling now in the championship challenge?

Team by team analysis of Sunday's Dutch Formula One Grand Prix at Zandvoort, round 15 of the 22-race season (listed in championship order):

Vettel had a slow first pitstop and picked up a five second penalty for ignoring blue warning flags when he came out of the pits in front of Hamilton. He was reprimanded for driving back to the pits with loosened seatbelts. Tsunoda triggered the virtual safety car when he stopped with a mechanical problem after earlier suspecting a wheel had not been fitted properly. Magnussen had a close encounter with the wall on lap two, skimming across the gravel and back on track in last place. The seven times champion pitted on lap 29 for hards and aiming for a one-stop strategy. He went second when the Ferraris pitted and took the lead when Verstappen came in on lap 19.

After claiming pole position yesterday ahead of championship rival Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen looks to make it four wins in-a-row at home track ...

Lap 30: In response to that Verstappen overtake, Hamilton dives into the pitlane to strap on a set of hard tyres. Lap 3: Yellow flags in sector one and it's Magnussen who loses it mid-corner and hits the barrier with a thump. Sainz in P3 is already 3.8 seconds adrift of the front pair and he himself is coming under heavy pressure from Hamilton behind. For fans in Canada, TSN will carry the English-language telecast of races. Lap 33: Russell is also now into the pits so it's as you were at the top as Verstappen leads from Leclerc. He gets a lovely exit out of the final corner and easily gets past Hamilton heading into corner one. Verstappen pits for a soft set of tyres but both Mercedes cars stay out and now Hamilton leads the race! Leclerc is down to P4 after the stops as Ferrari's misery looks set to continue here in the Netherlands. That stoppage came at the perfect time for Verstappen and Red Bull. That seems a lengthy gap but the time is continuing to fall. Hold on, down the back straight Russell jumps Hamilton and the pair nearly collide. Lap 64: During that restart Sainz also overtook Perez into corner one with a lovely move all the way around the outside.

Max Verstappen won his home race at the Dutch Grand Prix to continue his dominance of the 2022 Formula One.

LAP 61/72

Verstappen takes Hamilton at the restart! The outlook changed with just over 20 laps remaining after Yuki Tsunoda was unable to continue, forcing a virtual safety car. After the British star dropped to fourth following a short pit, he drove past Sergio Perez into third position and up to second when Leclerc made his pit stop. It was still far from an easy path, as several drivers seemingly had a chance to win. Russell finished in second after a controversial strategy with teammate Lewis Hamilton, who fell into fourth place after leading late. It was supposed to create a true race to the finish, but Verstappen showcased his talent immediately by passing Hamilton on the first turn after the restart.